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A feat his grandfather accomplished just once in his career. It took him nearly 2300 games to do it. Last night was Mike's 70th career game. Something to brag about at the Thanksgiving table, I suppose.

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Then Hader comes in to protect the 12-11 lead, first four batters walk/single/double/IBB, tie game and bases loaded with no one out, before he strikes out the next three guys. 12-12 to the 10th, this is a wild one...

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That WAS/MIL game had to have been one of the craziest games ever. After both closers got hammered in the 9th, neither team scored for the next three innings. Then in the 13th, Yelich homered and then WAS tied it again. Then in the 14th, Thames hit a 2 run HR and in the bottom of the inning, Hiura had a pretty easy throw to first to end it. He threw it wildly, a run scored and it was 15-14 MIL but WAS stranded the tying run at 3rd. Going back to 2009, teams were 569-0 when scoring 14 runs until this one.

And maybe the best part was that both pitchers at the end were J Guerra, Javy Guerra vs Junior Guerra.

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That WAS/MIL game had to have been one of the craziest games ever. After both closers got hammered in the 9th, neither team scored for the next three innings. Then in the 13th, Yelich homered and then WAS tied it again. Then in the 14th, Thames hit a 2 run HR and in the bottom of the inning, Hiura had a pretty easy throw to first to end it. He threw it wildly, a run scored and it was 15-14 MIL but WAS stranded the tying run at 3rd. Going back to 2009, teams were 569-0 when scoring 14 runs until this one.

And maybe the best part was that both pitchers at the end were J Guerra, Javy Guerra vs Junior Guerra.

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That WAS/MIL game had to have been one of the craziest games ever. After both closers got hammered in the 9th, neither team scored for the next three innings. Then in the 13th, Yelich homered and then WAS tied it again. Then in the 14th, Thames hit a 2 run HR and in the bottom of the inning, Hiura had a pretty easy throw to first to end it. He threw it wildly, a run scored and it was 15-14 MIL but WAS stranded the tying run at 3rd. Going back to 2009, teams were 569-0 when scoring 14 runs until this one.

And maybe the best part was that both pitchers at the end were J Guerra, Javy Guerra vs Junior Guerra.

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Man ... the Yankees sure are turning into a bunch of entitled whiners.

Every borderline strike (or ball, depending on the context) and you’ve got someone in their dugout screaming profanities at the ump, or Brett Gardner acting like a toddler and banging his bat against the ceiling.

That has to be related to Boone. They weren’t like this with Girardi as manager.

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Man ... the Yankees sure are turning into a bunch of entitled whiners.

Every borderline strike (or ball, depending on the context) and you’ve got someone in their dugout screaming profanities at the ump, or Brett Gardner acting like a toddler and banging his bat against the ceiling.

That has to be related to Boone. They weren’t like this with Girardi as manager.

There is some truth to this, but it's mostly been three games. The first one, a month or so ago, was the 'savages in the box' one and the home plate umpire was killing them, bad call after bad call and totally lopsided. After Boone went on his rant that game, the ump actually got quite a bit better and NY won the game. Yesterday was the second game, Maybin got punched out on a pitch that was never a strike, which he wasn't thrilled about, but the umps escalated it as much as the Yankees did. Today is obviously the same crew, and Cuzzi is behind the plate after he threw out both Gardner and CC from the bench yesterday, and the fact that he is doing a horrendous job behind the plate today isn't helping.

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I suspect there are some purists who dislike the whole spectacle but the MLB Little League Classic is cool as hell imho. The sport needs to do more of this stuff to build a younger audience. And the LLWS is exactly the sort of event they should be using to build mindshare with the kids.

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Indians and Mets go into extra innings tied at 2-2, the superhuman Carlos Santana goes deep in the top of the 10th, CLE up 3-2. Hand comes in for the bottom of the inning, Rosario with a nice opposite field double, sacrifice bunt moves him to 3rd, Francona IBBs Alonso even though he would be the winning run, Conforto hits what looks like a game-tying single into the hole on the right side...

but Santana ranges way off the bag, fields it, throws to second for the force to start the easy DP...

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This is the fourth appearance in a row Hand has been scored on, he's a complete mess right now with zero command. It seems like they need to warm someone up at the beginning of the 9th right now, because when he's off you can't get him out of there fast enough. He also broke for home instead of first on that play, although if there's a play at the plate there, it's going to happen long before he can back it up. They managed to win his last three meltdowns anyway (thanks mostly to Santana) but not tonight. Wasted opportunity to cut into Minnesota's lead.

Santana has hit 14 of his 30 home runs in the 7th inning or later, best in the AL.

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Whoa, just when you think maybe you have seen every way to lose in baseball, today the Astros were down 2-1 in the 9th, two outs, Robinson Chirinos up. Chirinos is 3 for 3 at that point and needs a triple for the cycle, and he doubles into the right-center gap. But he goes for third, presumably at least in part because of the cycle, and is thrown out to end the game.

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I didn't realize the Cubs' home/away split is so jarring (44-19 at home, 25-39 on the road).

looking at the elite teams this year, the Astros are 45-16 at home, 36-31 on the road. Dodgers 50-16 at home, but only 34-28 on the road. Yanks are 49-20, 34-25.

we were 57-24 last year at home. but while the Dodgers only need to go 8-7 the rest of the way at home to eclipse that, our 51-30 road record last year plus 7-1 playoff road record stands as very impressive.

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They weren't very healthy then (Altuve and Correa and Morton), and they're showing cracks again down the stretch, Correa onto the IL again this week and Pressly with arthroscopic surgery out 4-6 weeks. Agreed that they were the AL faves both last year and this year, though.

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Whoa, just when you think maybe you have seen every way to lose in baseball, today the Astros were down 2-1 in the 9th, two outs, Robinson Chirinos up. Chirinos is 3 for 3 at that point and needs a triple for the cycle, and he doubles into the right-center gap. But he goes for third, presumably at least in part because of the cycle, and is thrown out to end the game.

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I check in on the Dodgers and they only got 1 hit through 8 innings tonight. but then a shitty reliever for the Jays with a 7+ ERA gives up 3 hits and loses the game, adding yet another walk-off to their insane 51-16 home record.

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I check in on the Dodgers and they only got 1 hit through 8 innings tonight. but then a shitty reliever for the Jays with a 7+ ERA gives up 3 hits and loses the game, adding yet another walk-off to their insane 51-16 home record.

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I don't usually understand the objection to various uniforms. Basically, who cares? But these all-white unis are the stupidest things: you can't read the special player's nicknames b/c white on white doesn't read. For a look, go to mlbn, which is currently carrying a couple of games, including Atlanta v. NY.

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I don't usually understand the objection to various uniforms. Basically, who cares? But these all-white unis are the stupidest things: you can't read the special player's nicknames b/c white on white doesn't read. For a look, go to mlbn, which is currently carrying a couple of games, including Atlanta v. NY.

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I don't usually understand the objection to various uniforms. Basically, who cares? But these all-white unis are the stupidest things: you can't read the special player's nicknames b/c white on white doesn't read. For a look, go to mlbn, which is currently carrying a couple of games, including Atlanta v. NY.

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It’s strange that he’s up, his velocity and control are both worse this year. He was getting hit so hard in the super ball PCL that they sent him back to AA and the minor league balls, but he’s even been getting hit there recently. Next start would be against Paxton and NY on Wed, we’ll see if they leave him up but I doubt it.

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